Factcheck.org says this Obama ad “paint[s] a false picture.” Last week, Brian Faughnan did a little debunking of the DHL smear here on the blog.
Announcer: “John McCain helped pave the way for foreign-owned DHL to take over an American shipping company.” “MCCAIN MANAGER LOBBIED FOR FOREIGN DEAL”, flashes across the screen. A middle-aged white Ohio man says: “It’s tough times when it’s a foreign entity coming in and sucker-punching us.” I guess this is how Obama expects to win those “bitter” folks in “small towns” who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” The McCain camp’s response is here:
